12th International Pärnu Fideo and Vilm Festival
PAIN IN THE CLASS

November 18th-19th 2006, Pärnu Mud Baths (Ranna 1)

At present the International Film and Video Festival produced by AGS is the biggest and only festival in Estonia, mapping the AV landscape in Estonia and abroad. Every festival takes on a general theme. “Regional Settings” (2005), “Oxidental Antiutopias” (2004), “Experiments and The Classics” (2002), etc. 
The program consists of the following parts:
-	International programs compiled by curators from different countries and/or by open call for submissions.
-	Estonian programs compiled by curators, or by educational/professional institutions out of their production
-	Special programs compiled by foreign or local curators, as documentary, puppet animation, amateur etc.
-	Workshops for professional participants from different countries, Academia Non Grata students and local young people.
-	Additional art program, like opening performances, video exhibitions.
-	Entertainment program – festival club with good live music and VJ’s.

The theme this year is “Pain in the Class”, which relates to ideas and issues surrounding privileged access (e.g. to food, influence, information, credit, medicine, DNA etc.). In certain cases these are emergent issues in recently ex-communist Estonia. All interpretations on this theme are welcomed. 

Academia Gustaviana Society / AGS is a nongovernmental, nonprofit, independent organisation initiated in 1998 to promote culture, especially contemporary interdisciplinary art and to improve the art education. AGS operates at global, European, national and local level.
AGS Society has three main outputs:
-	Organising international art events (festivals, exhibitions).
-	Running the internationally well-known performance art group Non Grata.
-	Running the independent art academy Academia Non Grata.
All those activities are conceptually synergised and integrated into a single organisation in order to gain maximum results with minimal costs.

MTÜ Academia Gustaviana Selts, Suur-Posti 16, 80018 Pärnu, Estonia. Tel +3724426546 www.nongrata.ee